Maria+Gomez


 * SUMMARY: Maria Gomez, age 29, died May 4, 1976 after an abortion performed by John Blodgett at Atlantic Family Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. **

Shortly after noon on May 4, 1976, 29-year-old Maria D. Gomez underwent a [|safe and legal] vacuum abortion at Altantic Family Medical Clinic in Los Angeles County. Within an hour and a half she had [|bled to death].

The coroner report indicates that Dr. John Blodgett claimed that Maria must have bled to death from an "old" cervical cut. The autopsy found otherwise. Maria's lacerated and gashed uterus still contained the severed head of her unborn baby, and more than a quart of blood was pooled in her abdomen. Maria's lacerations had not been sutured, but her vagina had been packed with gauze.

Source: LA County Coroner Report 76-5654

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